Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Samsung Electronics logs record profit on memory chip boom, by Youkyung Lee
Fed leaves rates alone but moves closer to selling bonds, by Martin Crutsinger
Bloomberg
Meg Whitman steps down from HP board, by Molly Schuetz and Brian Womack
Gilead still doesn’t get a deal pass, by Max Nisen
Fortune
Target isn’t worried about Amazon’s Whole Foods purchase, by Susie Gharib
Waze is coming to your car’s screen, by Kirsten Korosec
Reuters
Discovery in the lead to acquire Scripps Networks, by Jessica Toonkel and Liana B. Baker
Foxconn announces U.S. manufacturing plant in Wisconsin, by David Shepardson
News about business journalism
Bartiromo named a top digital influencer
Arizona biz reporter Carrasco named editorial writer
Cheddar is bringing Wall Street to Main Street
Mergermarket hires Fields as senior reporter
This date in business journalism
2012: FT’s digital subs pass print on global basis
2007: SF Chronicle biz columnist says goodbye
Business journalism birthday
July 27: Sapna Maheshwari of the New York Times
July 27: Katie Peralta of the Charlotte Observer
